Aggie Swimmers Show Great Form in Meets;
Should be Threats for SWC Title Next Year
Entries Coming in Fast for Gulf AAUMeet
Campus Cleaners Eliminate Theatre 9-7;
Mignon Martin, Famous Diving Queen
Entered; Final Preparations Are Made
Await Winner of Lipscomb-Lonpot Series
BATTALIONA—
Sjtiemr
Thursday, August 27, 1942
Page 3
MUTES*
by'•Ttlihe TJJann
While football talk predominates
the scene at Aggieland, one can’t
overlook a great showing Coach
Art Adamson’s swimming team is
piling up this year. The tankers,
admittedly, have been in but two
meets, but it’s not the mere fact
that the boys have managed to
win ’em. It’s the fact that they
won so decisively over top-flight
competition that makes you kind
of feel that there is truly a great
aquatic team around you.
That brings up some important
questions of next year’s Southwest
Conference swimming campaign.
By that time, Danny Green, George
Heaney, will be sophomores and
eligible for varsity competition.
True, Coach Adamson will pri
marily have to rely on sophomore
stock, but when you look at the
records of some of these poys,
you just snap your fingers and
say “It’s a cinch—we’ll have a
champ by late March.”
This boy Green will truly make
history as far as Aggie swimming
js concerned. He swims with the
rapidity of a motor boat, with a
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result that has record after re
cord go into the waste basket after
each meet. He is a free style specia
list, excelling in the 220 and 440
yard sprints. He should pole a few
records before he finishes A. & M.
that will stand up for a long, long
time.
As for Heaney, he should be the
conference’s best backstroke indi
vidualist. He won the state meet al
most annually while attending high
school and has attained mid-season
form in meets this year.
Most of the weakness appear in
the spring and diving events. Aside
of the speedy Green, Coach Adam
son can’t boast of any more superb
free-stylists, and unless someone
is developed to gain those pre
cious second and third places, the
Aggies may have a few heart
aches. As for the diving part,
Coach Adamson’s tankers have al
ways had a weakness in that de
partment. Divers are few and far
between, and although the veteran
Aggie coach makes an annual plea
for prospective divers, he has had
very little luck in that respect.
It’s still a bit early in the year
to look as far ahead as the latter
part of March—time of the South
west Conference swimming meet—
but if the present showing by the
Cadets is any kind of an indica
tion, you can bet that the long-ac
customed reign of Texas Universi
ty over the rest of the conference
swimmers will be at an end.
SPORT SQUIBS FROM HERE
AND THERE; WEDDING BELLS
RING FOR PAPPY WESSON
It’s wedding bells for Euel “Pop
pa” Wesson, huge Aggie tackle of
the past year, Friday night at Ft.
Worth. . . Pappy is slated to say
“I do” along with his attractive
wife-to-be, Nora Nettles of Tem
ple. . . Incidentally, speaking of
Wesson, the big Temple gridster,
will be in school during the foot
ball season finishing work on his
military contract. . . He will pro
bably be one of the freshman as
sistant football coaches. . . At pre
sent, during his spare hours, Pap
py spends the time umpiring the
Twilight League softball games,
and doing a nifty job of it. . .A to-
(See KYLE FIELD. Page 4)
There’s still three more weeks be
fore the huge summer intramural
program comes to a successful end
ing, but Director W. L. Penberthy,'
Assistant Spike White and the
rest of the physical education de
partment are already working out
final plans for that long-awaited
stretch which comes during the
Lipscomb One Up On
Loupot’s; Meet Again
Today in SecondGame
The regular season league-lead
ing Campus Cleaners outlasted the
Campus Theatre’s challenge, 9-7, to
sweep the two-game series and
knock the latter out of the Shaugh-
nessey playoff.
To Await Winner
The Cleaners will now await the
winner of the Loupot-Lipscomb
fracas, which will take up again
tomorrow after being postponed
last night by mutual agreement by
both teams.
Errors marked the Cleaners-
Theatre game, which, incidentally
was one of the wildest games of
the year. The Theatre bunch start
ed off the slugfest with two un
earned runs in the opening frame.
Black singled, but was forced by
Bob Walker. Zapalac popped up and
Fowler beat out a hit. Glass then
hit one to Gillette, who deflected
the ball into right field, causing
Walker and Fowler to score.
Gain Run Back
The Cleaners gained one of their
runs back as Jennings and Lietz
drew walks and Gillette singled the
former one 2 in. They scored four
more in the third on singles by
Ramsey, Lietz and Grantham and
a walk to Drake. Another three
came across in the fourth on hits
by Drake and Dunn and a walk to
J. Daniels. Their final tally came
in the sixth on hits by Tillery,
Daniels and Ramsey.
Meanwhile, the Theatre bunch
came back hard to tighten up the
slack. After counting one run each
in the second and fourth, they open-
edup a determined rally in the
sixth'that almost nipped the Clean
ers. Zapalac singled and went to
second as Drake erred on Fowler’s
grounder. Glass flied out but Leo
Daniels smashed a single through
second to score both runners. He
himself then counted as Bill Walk
er lashed out a bingle to right.
Gunner Dunn of the Cleaners
stood out with his brilliant field
ing in short field while Leo Dan
iels of the Theatre made some bril
liant catches in his shortfield post.
Both a grand game.
latter part of September.
One-Semester Rule
Breaking a tradition that has
stood here for many years, the in
tramural department will award a
championship flag after only one
semester. Heretofore, it’s been a
custom for an organization to fight
through a whole year before a
glory, which is coveted by every
entry, comes. This year, the flag
will be awarded at the end of the
summer semester, which, incident
ally concludes one of the most
successful intramural seasons in
many a year.
Championships have already been
awarded in Class A tennis and
water polo and Class B swimming
and volleyball. The rest of the
sports are in their final stretch and
playoffs are due to start in the
very near future.
Sport Winners
Winners crowned so far include:
Class A—Infantry Band (Tennis)
and 3rd Headquarters Field Ar
tillery (Water Polo); Class B—C
Replacement Center (Volleyball)
and C Field Artillery (Swimming).
Adding a few needed points to their
cause were the runnerups in the
various sports mentioned. In the
Class A division of tennis, A In
fantry gathered in the runnerup
spot, while I Field Artillery came
in second best in the water polo
encounter.
In Class B 3rd Hdq. Field Ar
tillery wound up behind the college
swimming champs, while the “pad
dle-feet” from E Infantry came in
second in the volleyball race.
Festivities imthe fornv of an ice
cream party were enjoyed by the
Intramural Departmental Mana
gers Club Tuesday night at their
regular meeting. Johnny Mouser,
, i: i , :r . . , junior manager,
is president of the
:lub which has
been organized
for the “recrea
tion” of the man
agers. Musical en
tertainment was
furnished by a
string quartet
consisting of Eck-
Mike Mann le y Schatzman,
Bob Abshire, Jimmie Boone, and
Bill Ross. The latter came forth
FORFEIT DOGHOUSE
CLASS A ■
B Ordnance, softball, 2
A Signal torps, swimming
B Infantry, volleyball
CLASS B
Artillery Band, tennis
C Coast Artillery, softball
G Infantry, softball
C Replacement Center, tennis
D Engineers, tennis
with a flute at intervals and pro
vided an enjoyable contrast.
The current intramural season
Now as to the situation in the
drive for the intramural college
championship. At present, with
three more sports in the balance,
the Infantry Band and A Infantry
dominate the Class A division with
a total of 135 markers apiece. Soft-
ball, volleyball and swimming may
prove to be the deciding factor in
the championship drives of either
team.
Class A Leader
C Field Artillery, meanwhile, is
atop the Class pinacle leading its
nearest adversary, E Infantry by
10 points. The former has compil
ed a total of 135 points while the
latter has been able to gather 125.
Again, the remaining three sports—
softball, water polo and tennis will
in all probability be the determin
ing factor in this gruelling race.
Both of the aforementioned teams
are in the thick of the above nam
ed sports, and should have a merry
fight of it before the final cur
tain rings down during the latter
part of September.
Race Not Over
The race is not over yet by any
means. There are three or four
teams in both divisions of Class
A and B that definitely in a threat
ening position, and with a deter
mined last minute drive may be
able to outdistance the present
leaders. At any rate, Director Pen
berthy expects a hard fight from
the contestants to the final day.
Playoffs for the undetermined
sports will be held within a week
or two.
is rapidly drawing to a close with
the final games being played this
week and the first part of next
week. This play will complete the
regular leagues but the playoffs
are yet to come. These playoffs
will begin next week and continue
for the next 10 or 15 days.
A most successful season has
been in evidence for the intramural
participants. The entire humber of
games have been run off with a
minimum of trouble and the for
feits, while high at times, have, on
the whole been low.
Dewey Hoke of the Intramural
department wishes to remind any
men who are taking intramurals
instead of classwork for P. E. cre
dit and who have changed out
fits during the year to report to
the Intramural office to have their
records changed if they have not
yet done so.
With only a few games left to
be played, it would be advisable for
recreational officers to check on the
men in their outfit who are taking
intramurals for P. E. credit. They
may be a game or two away from
the passing limit of 16 games and
this last week may offer enough
games for them to pull through.
CLASS A
Softball
(See INTRAMURALS, Page 4)
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HE IS RIGHT
WITH YOU
Interest for Aggieland’s top
swimming attraction of the year is
growing fast and furious as entries
from every part of the state are
rolling in at a rapid pace. Most of
the entries are coming from Hous
ton, Port Arthur and Beaumont.
The big festivities of the week
end bring to Aggieland the Gulf
Coast AAU meet, which will com
prise some of the state’s outstand
ing aquatic stars, including Mignon
Martin, Houston’s beautiful div
ing queen and Lloyd Smoot, ju
venile back-stroke sensation.
Incidentally, one of the most in
teresting events of the day should
be the back-stroke duel between
Smoot and George Heaney, Aggie
freshman sensation. Smoot and
Heaney have met in several meets,
with one of the other coming out
on top by a shade. At present,
Heaney holds a slight edge having
beaten Smoot two out of the three
times they have met.
Their first meeting was for the
TAAF swimming championship
which Heaney annexed by a shade,
defeating Smoot in the last drive.
The latter, however, gained re
venge when he edged out his rival
in the meet this past year. Heaney
then came back to beat Smoot for
the second time—this instance at
the Southwestern AAU meet last
year;
However, the feature of the meet
is due to come from the swim
ming exhibitions presented by Miss
Martin and Danny Green the sen
sational Texas Aggie swimming
ace. Green has broken at least one
record in every meet that Coach
Adamson’s crew have participated
and Saturday night is expected to
add a few more laurels in his
specialties—the 220 and the 440
yard free style events. Mignon, in
the meantime, has marveled fans
all over the country with her in
genious diving skill* She retained
her woman’s crown at the recent
AAU meet held in New Orleans
(See AAU MEET, Page 4)
FOR THE BEST
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